The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.
NEW ON THE BLOG:
Red Hat announced an expansion of the Individual Developer subscription for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to support small production workloads and large enterprise development teams. The programs are delivered via updates to the terms and conditions of the Individual Developer subscription. Read the blog to learn more about these changes.
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Forbes - The Edge: What does it mean for artificial intelligence?
In light of the rapid innovations in a myriad of categories, the edge has the potential to become a major growth business, particularly when combined with artificial intelligence; however, there needs to be a focus on building quality systems while also rethinking conventional approaches. Red Hat's Abhinav Joshi weighs in with thoughts on how organizations can successfully address these challenges.
IN THE NEWS:
Sharing is caring: Building clearer contribution paths to your community
One of the most important topics in the open source community is "how do we attract more people to our community?" This makes perfect sense because you can’t have a community without people. Onboarding is something we have worked to codify in Red Hat’s Open Source Program Office, and in this post we focus on contributors as an important component of project success.
GOOD READ:
Integrating a monitoring system with Red Hat Insights
In a world where we both need to focus on adapting new IT solutions and increasing operational efficiency, we need to start working smarter and more proactively. Every Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription offers free access to Red Hat Insights, an advanced analytics service which greatly helps increase operational efficiency with very little effort. Learn how to connect Red Hat Insights with existing operational processes to help you work more proactively.
CHECK IT OUT:
TechHQ - 3 open-source software giants to watch in 2021
Throughout 2020, staff writers at TechHQ have covered a broad range of subjects. Of all the company names that have cropped up, it is the software companies that continue to have significant influence, and none more so than the large players in the server space, including Red Hat. Read the article to find out why.
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